How To Install wolf4sdl on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wolf4sdl on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is wolf4sdl
wolf4sdl is:
Maybe it was the fact that people got to blow away Nazis. Maybe it was the sheer challenge of it all. For whatever reason, Wolfenstein 3-D and Spear of Destiny, pioneered the first-person shooter genre and brought its legendary creators, id Software, worldwide notoriety and numerous awards. In fact, The Computer Gaming World Hall of Fame recognized Wolfenstein 3D as helping to shape the overall direction of the computer gaming industry.
Wolf4SDL is an open-source port of id Software’s classic first-person shooter Wolfenstein 3-D to the cross-platform multimedia library “Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL)” (http://www.libsdl.org). It is meant to keep the original feel while taking advantage of some improvements.
The wolf4sdl game requires additional data files which are not available under a free license and cannot be distributed by Debian. Thus, this package contains no data files, but current releases of `game-data-packager’ are able to generate suitable data packages from the publicly available Wolfenstein 3-D shareware episode.
There are three methods to install wolf4sdl on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install wolf4sdl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wolf4sdl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wolf4sdl
Install wolf4sdl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wolf4sdl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wolf4sdl
Install wolf4sdl Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install wolf4sdl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wolf4sdl
How To Uninstall wolf4sdl on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the wolf4sdl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wolf4sdl
Uninstall wolf4sdl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wolf4sdl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wolf4sdl
Remove wolf4sdl Configurations and Data
To remove wolf4sdl configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wolf4sdl
Remove wolf4sdl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wolf4sdl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wolf4sdl
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wolf4sdl package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
